{"id":1024,"date":"2006-05-03T20:51:41","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T03:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2006-05-23T18:21:15","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T01:21:15","slug":"dumb-ass-ex-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"Dumb Ass Ex Husband."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/46\/135806527_ee33c4f6af_m.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last week I got a phone call as I was laying in bed with Shaun watching a movie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, whatcha doin?&#8221; it was my ex-husband calling.<br \/>\n&#8220;Just watching a movie.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Which one?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Just a stupid one. Why? What are you doing?&#8221; I ask only half interested.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m watching the King&#8217;s game in the living room.&#8221;<br \/>\nI have a feeling this is going somewhere, so I ask &#8220;Who&#8217;s living room?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As you guessed, we have a pretty good relationship because I didn&#8217;t start screaming and call 911.  I did get the raised eyebrows and the WTF look on my face as I asked him, &#8220;Why are you in MY living room watching the King&#8217;s game?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I came over to get the kids and no one was here so I decided to check the score and got pulled into it.  Where are the kids?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He calls me usually every day or every other day to check on the girls or to chat about something funny someone said.  I told him to either get Cingular or stop calling me because my phone bill had his number on it WAY too often.  He slowed down a bit, but he called me 3 times today.  Once to tell me that he was happy with the dentist I picked for him. Once to ask me if I wanted a coffee. Third to tell me went to the doctor and instead of getting a allergy shot, he had to get an EKG.<br \/>\nHe came over for dinner and he was acting weird.  His allergies were bothering him, but the fact that he didn&#8217;t have someone to talk to about this, sort of had him a bit weirded out.  THe doctor said he was worried about his heart and put him on medication.<\/p>\n<p>Dan layed back on my couch and fell asleep.  Shaun and I have come to realize we are Dan&#8217;s family. He&#8217;s comfortable here. He knows he can talk to me and Shaun&#8217;s not going to freak out. It goes both ways with Shaun&#8217;s ex too. When something happens to her, Shaun is the first person she calls.  It comes with being with someone for so many years, and it&#8217;s not something that either one of us stresses out about.  Our relationship is too busy to sweat the small stuff.<\/p>\n<p>As I was in the bedroom coping CD&#8217;s I could hear Shaun tell the kids, &#8220;Shhhhh, your dad&#8217;s asleep!&#8221;<br \/>\nI had to grin and hold back a little laugh.  Poor Shaun. What did he get himself into?<\/p>\n<p>When Dan finally woke up a couple hours later he felt better and took the kids to get ice cream.  Marina came in to tell us that she and her friend were going with Dan too.<\/p>\n<p>The phone rang a little while ago, it was my ex.  &#8220;Did you want an ice cream?&#8221;  I told him no but thanked him for asking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Does Shaun want an ice cream?&#8221;<br \/>\nI know I bitch and call him a dumb ass, but the next time I complain remind me about the time that Dan took not only his kids, but Shaun&#8217;s kid AND her friend to get ice cream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I got a phone call as I was laying in bed with Shaun watching a movie. &#8220;Hey, whatcha doin?&#8221; it was my ex-husband calling. &#8220;Just watching a movie.&#8221; &#8220;Which one?&#8221; &#8220;Just a stupid one. Why? What are you doing?&#8221; I ask only half interested. &#8220;I&#8217;m watching the King&#8217;s game in the living room.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}